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Go to the site and sign up for a month which rolls on at £5 per month until you terminate it. They send you a user name and password to use which you keep unless you contact them to change it. Ten channels. Usually 2 for Saints match then all the other Premier games at that time. Rest of the time it tracks the sports channels, darts, golf, motor racing etc. Just watched Fulham v Wolves, good picture all the way through. Haven't decided yet which to watch at 1500.

saintsplayer.com Worked fine for me, buffered a couple of times. Changed to channel 7 then back to 1. Pretty good quality all the way through. No problem selecting full screen.

Has a face like a smacked arse in the training photos

For a start it doesn't matter what Cedric wants to do because opponents have his card marked and players who are decent in the air are tasked to slip the centre back and pull off onto Cedric who is too small to cope. It's planned not accidental. As for international experience, the ball is mostly on the ground and rarely has to defend in the air.

Did anyone actually see Cedric during the game at SMS. I ask that because I've got a feeling he wasn't bothered enough to be there. How do I know this, I don't but I suspect ? As I was arriving at SMS at 1245 he rushed across the road in front of my wife's car and jumped into a car which drove off towards the docks. If he hadn't bothered to be at the game I doubt he'll get much change from Ralph.

I'm sick and tired of Soares either losing his mark in front of goal or beaten in the air on his near post. Valery is the future. Against Cardiff he was booked early and Murphy/Cardiff were playing on it knowing he really couldn't compete and block off Murphy. He's played two and a half games, Manchester Utd, Arsenal for four points and at Cardiff it was a high priced International defender who made a massive Horlicks in conceding the goal otherwise another point. Valery all day long.

For those that are criticising Romeu, and he should be criticised for dallying with the ball in front of his box instead of clearing it, it should be noted that he ran further than any player on the pitch, 7.6 miles, Michitaryan was the next with 7.2 miles. Valery had the most sprints, 26 but I still hope to see him not hesitate when facing the last defender and take him on. Another match won with 34% possession. Last week 67%ish lost. As far as the figures went we had 3 more shots on target. On target 7/4, missed target 1/4, blocked 4/5. Possession is useful only if it's used. Results wise we won and equalled the output despite having half the possession.

I went today. A much improved performance and shape. Firstly they all tried hard. Armstrong ran himself into the ground, cramp at the end. Ings finished brilliantly both his chances. A super leading ball across the defender for the first, inch perfect chip from Redmond for the lobbed header, keeper didn't move. Valery played well but is still finding his feet. He needs a bit more confidence to go for the line when he gets the chance. The three centre backs were up against it with Arsenals's slick, quick forwards but worked hard and effectively. Target great cross but not enough. He gave the ball away too many times when not under pressure. Struggles with pace. Armstrong, Hojbjerg and Romeu worked their socks off but they need to learn when to cut out the tippy tappy that puts us under pressure when we are closed down. Ings and Redmond worked hard and caused Arsenal problems. Long played well, defended, broke, won headers and made a super run down the right channel for Hoijberg's through ball to provide a super cross that pulled the keeper off his line which Austin finished clinically. One thing they are going to have to learn. In the last ten minutes 3-2 up they could see the finishing line so didn't dither on the ball, clearing long straight away. Long really put his boot through one that went miles but it sure takes the pressure off, especially if the ball is in the back of the stand. Dithering gets us caught out. Just clear it out towards the corners and let the forwards chase it. We aren't clever or slick enough to play pretty patterns under pressing in front of our box.

Interestingly he has scored 16 goals so far this season. Last night he looked like he was playing up front centrally. we mostly played him on the right and got not a lot out of him.

Steven Davis couldn't press a pair of trousers. He never tackles head on, always slows up making sure he doesn't have to, pulls out if there is any chance of contact and presses from too far away allowing the opponent to bypass him. As for tracking mostly goes halfway then has his head in his hands after the player he stopped tracking scores. He's out of contract on 30th June.

Since lists were taken I'll bet. Terry Paine laid on more goals in his 700 ish games than anyone on the list. He was the most accurate crosser of a ball I've ever seen. Steven Davis not even in the same class. Ron Davies used to get better than twenty goals a season from his crosses alone. The team used to score anything between eighty and a hundred a year. You did also say All time not EPL.

Maybe his problem is the indoctrination by Puel and Pellegrino regarding the holy grail of possession at all costs. Hoedt, Bertrand, Targett, Bednerek, Soares, Stephens and Yoshida all have been caught in possession through not clearing it. Yoshida was at fault against MU, tried to take possession and lost the ball instead of kicking it away, and for Herrera's goal tried not to give a corner away and tried to flick a boot at it. Hughes obviously didn't do anything about that. Maybe now Hasenhuttl will get them to put their boot through it if there is the slightest danger then hunt it down in a pack in midfield or up front to get it back. Years ago when I was doing my pilot training, All Nippon pilots were trained there and I remember there was a major criticism of the Japanese mentality due to a widespread lack of flexibility. They were brilliant at learning by numbers but hopeless at using their initiative, which caused problems when presented with unusual or multiple failures during training. In other words they do as they are told rigidly.

It's not Austin to run the channels, it's Hojbjerg, Lamina, Armstrong, Redmond etc that need to get up quickly I bet we'll see a difference shortly with all of them getting up front quickly. It's not Rocket science, Revie had Leeds doing it in the sixties. They have to start hunting in packs not just one poor bastard in between three while the other players back off or spectate.

We need a fans end to be full of noisy fans. The away fans between the Northam and Itchen North neutralise that end. It needs both the Northam Saints and Itchen North to be linked.

I watched a 6' 7" centre back yesterday allow a much shorter player continually back into him and stop him from winning the ball. The man is either chicken, dopey or both. what he should have done was back off then get a run and jump. If the forward still tries to back in and block, make him by your actions aware that there is a lot of pain coming. Nothing concentrates the mind more than the thought of 14 stone clattering into your back. Fonte did that effectively and he wasn't the biggest but he was brave. The legacy that came from Les Reed then carried out by Puel and Pellegrino that possession was the all important criteria has destroyed our ability to defend. Recently we have conceded goals that could have been easily prevented by belting the ball away from the danger area, however our players want to pass no matter what. Some of the passes we make are ridiculous and so short the ball can only go backwards and sideways. Yesterday we had 67% possession practically no penetration, only a couple of half chances. Not much of that possession was in the last third. Our defenders need to safety first it out of the danger area and stop fart arseing around with tippy tappy back to the keeper as he is going to mostly belt it anyway so why pass back. Had Vestergaard belted the ball yesterday there was no goal.

Vestergaard is an international, WHAT!!!!!. Who the hell signed him. Carillo. Boufal, etc. Any Saints fan seeing them before they signed would have said, either too slow, can't jump, greedy, too small, etc etc don't even think about it. Yet we rubbished the best part of £100m on crap.Black box, Les Reed, Ross Wilson are incompetent. Any fool can see that Soares is too small, Targett is dopey and slow, Hojbjerg tries hard but creates nothing, Lamina needs to do his tricks in the penalty area, Bednerek is work in progress, Armstrong, Redmond and Austin received the ball too late. Stephens needs a kicking to wake him up. Decent defender with an aversion to putting his foot through the ball when needed. We had that point in the bag until we committed suicide with pitty patty at the back and Vestergaard's attempt at a back pass was just one of loads of similar errors misplacing passes when under no pressure. McCarthy hardly had a save to make. I have a feeling they are going to get what they deserve this coming week.

I had this thought earlier, looked it up and he is playing in a back four with Poland.

OS says Soares injured

A lot more backbone in this team. I can see where he is going.

I can see them pressing a lot harder and tightening up at the back. Yoshida's waving his foot at the ball won't cut it. Anybody that doesn't play hard will be on their bikes out of the squad. That message won't take long to sink in. He says that is this weeks priority.

It's the ****ing zonal marking that none of them understand. All of them standing around in their box while the attackers are free to move around while they look at each other and do nothing. Although against United he failed to tackle ruthlessly but waved a foot at the ball allowing two goals. Targett frigging about last night a la Bertrand v Everton and Hoedt recently, stick it in row Z FFS.

I think it was reported they were all scheduled in in the morning for a recovery session but Hasenhuttl (Haasenhoootle he says) changed it to have everyone in in the afternoon.

I like this man, don't let the smile fool you. I can see a ruthless man that will very quickly without having to yell etc, put the fear of God up the players. Woe betide anybody that doesn't measure up. I can see a couple of sacrificial lambs made an example of, then watch out. There is a touch of Fergie about him. If I'm right we won't go down. It'll be 'my way or the highway'.

This team is the antithesis of a pressing team. It will do exactly the opposite to Hasenhuttl's reported philosophy.

This could be the end for Davis and JWP. It's a crap lightweight team and it will get murdered in midfield. Eriksen will have a field day. Davis won't mark or tackle and JWP is too slow and a powderpuff tackler. It could be the forwards won't get a kick. I could be proved an idiot but I think Kelvin Davis is a fool or a genius. I don't think he is a genius. Managers manage and see the balance, coaches put out the cones and run the sessions. Romeu must have upset somebody or is bailing out in January.